Canada’s Debate

A couple of stories I’ve posted on recently need to be updated.

First up: Coming to the Defence of RBC. I wrote here about the RBC refusing U.S. dollar accounts to dual-citizenship clients from certain unfriendly nations, and defended the RBC. They were playing it safe, and have now decided to relax this policy. I suppose Liberal Catnip was right.

Second story:Are Bloggers Pirates? I wanted to discuss whether or not bloggers are engaging in copyright infringement.

My personal standard is never more than two consecutive paragraphs at a time, only material which is necessary to elucidate my own criticism/review (which is the basis of my fair dealings) and never more than 10% of the copyrighted material. I’d be curious to know how other bloggers feel about their own practices in this area; it certainly seems to me like the post linked to at the top of this one is infringing on the copyright of the Detroit Free Press… but I’m no lawyer.

I started a poll on the subject (can be found in the left-sidebar) and much to my surprise, 3 out of the 7 voters have decided that full-text reposting is not a copyright infringement. I find this rather shocking and would love for the people who voted no to come by and explain their thinking, or better yet, write a post on the subject.

Third story: Cabinet Roundup… I would actually like to revise my grade here for Mr. O’Connor. I gave him a C- back in December, and I would like to change that to an F… because apparently this “military man,” didn’t even leave enough money for the Canadian navy to go on fishing and border patrols.